Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what mat… - Eric Siblin

The art of not playing in tempo — one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

"How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!"